Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Syr Dafydd (partly in Penmaen Community)
Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 March 1999
- Locality
- Rhiw Syr Dafydd
- Community
- Blackwood
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67952, -3.18613
- Cadw reference
- 21509
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the foot of Rhiw Syr Dafydd Hill, an exceptionally steep road crossing the Sirhowy valley and linking Penmaen and Oakdale, with Blackwood and Bedwellty.
History
Probably C18. The route itself could be much earlier, linking the medieval hilltop communities and churches of Bedwellty and Mynyddislwyn.
Exterior
A single arch slightly hump-backed bridge spanning the Sirhowy River. Of narrow coursed rubble with deep even dressed stone voussoirs with a protruding keystone; only one probably original flat coping stone survives at NE, the rest remoulded in concrete. Splayed approaches, repaired; an offset in NE abutment. The high point of the bridge is not centred over the river arch.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pre-industrial bridge, one of a few surviving in this area.
Nearby in the register
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- Wall, railings and gates at Oakdale HospitalHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Oakdale HospitalHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Gelli-Dywyll Farmhouse (also known as Cwmgelli Farm)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.